Kung Fu Movies and Fighting Games

Can the movie martial arts as depicted in Kung Fu movies like:

Shaw Brothers Movies
The Five Deadly Venoms 1 & 2
Deadly Mantis
36th Chamber of Sholin

Bruce Lee's
Enter The Dragon
Way of the Dragon
Fist of Fury

Jacky Chan's
Drunken Master,
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow

Jet Li's
Shaolin Temple
Once Upon A Time in China1,2,3
Fists Of Legend
Fearless
Tai Chi Master

Donnie Yen's
Ip Man 1,2,3,4
Flash Point
Legent of the Fist
Sha Po Lang
Dragon

Be implemented more realistically in a fighting game than some of them are in Virtua Fighter? I know games like SF, and MK have some of the styles. But when it comes to capturing the essence of those Kung Fu in the movies, am I wrong or does Virtua Fighter do better job at creating that movie martial arts feel than anybody else?

DOA has Jan Lee, Brad Wong, Genfu, Tekken has Feng Wei, Wang, Lei Wul Long , Xing, and Wang, but I don't think they really capture the kung fu in the movies the way VF does. Is it just my blatant VF bias blinding me

I think this topic has been touched on here and there on VFDC, but I'm not sure if its really been answered.

Out of the 3D Fighters, Tekken, DOA, and Virtua Fighter who has the most legitimate animations that most fit the Kung Fu/ Martial arts in the movies

I know Tekken had a lot of bonafide martial arts motion cap, and I think VF did too. I dunno about DOA. Did they have any real martial arts mocap in DOA

Is Jacky and Sarah's Jeet Kun Do, better than Tekken's Marshal Law, or DOA's Jan Lee?
Is Shun Di's Drunken Master a closer movie rendition than Lei WuLong's Drunken Master, or Brad Wong's?

What about Ling Xiaou compared to Pai Chan? Classic Movie Martial Arts from 70's and 80's

If I'm looking for implementations in Fighting Games of Martial Arts : Karate, Judo, Shaolin Kung Fu, Drunken Master, Prayin Mantis, Monkey, Eagle fist, Taekwon Do, Jeet Kun do, etc from the movies how would we rank DOA, Virtua Fighter and Tekken Which FG has the best movie martial art animations

 

Interesting question.

If we're talking about movie styled martial arts, I'd say it is kinda spread out evenly among all 3 games. But tekken takes the cake, for over exaggerated movie themed martial arts.

 

Tekken., Ok they have:

Lei Wulong
Feng Wei
Ling Xiaou
Law
Leroy
Heihachi
Kazuya
Jin
Nina
Hworang

But Virtua Fighter has:


Jean
Lau
Pai
Aoi
Kage
Goh
Akira
Jacky
Sarah
Eileen
Leon
Lei Fei
Shun Di


I dunno , I don't think Tekken takes the cake

 

In a way, I agree, but Tekken is based upon the Hong Kong martial arts film over exaggerated, unrealistic notion, where like for example with (Marshall Law), when you do a move like a back hand fist, the character (Law) is stuck in that move for over 2 secs. No one in real life does crap like that, stuff like that is seen mostly in kung fu movies. In real life, a person would immediately draw back his hand to block or defend himself, immediately after that back hand fist missed or hit, otherwise a person would hit you while doing theatrical silliness like that.

 

Agreed., I guess it depends which decade of martial arts films we're referring to.

1960's to 1970's
1970's to 1980's
1980's to 1900's , etc

Comparing Wuxia films, to kung fu films, to recent stuff like IP Man 1,2,3,4, Redbelt etc. Its the difference between Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest stuff and Dragon Dynasty stuff. In addition to which movie studio we're referring to, there is also the big difference between directors/producers e.g Gordon Liu, Yuen Woo ping, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Jacky Chan, David Chiang, etc all directed martial arts and each had a different notion of 'realism'


You're right Tekken combat does represent Martial Arts Movies, but its probably more pre 1990's martial arts, and Virtua Fighter combat does represent Martial art Movies but is more after the 90's to current movies. Tekken is definitely more fantasy based and closer to 70s - 80s and VF is 90's to present

Tekken's fireballs, sparks, whirl winds, explosions, magic, vampires, tele-porting, disappearing and re-appearing, fighting kangeroos, pandas, bears, floating, flying, monsters, etc is so fantasy based, that the fantasy presentation over shadows the nice movie martial arts animations that some of the characters in Tekken have

So yea you're right Tekken really is very close to a certain genre and time period of martial art movie. But VF combat and presentation is much closer to modern martial arts movies

And clearly the Tekken Community prefer the highly fantastical martial arts combat found in Tekken. Its a video game, so there's absolutely nothing wrong with heavy doses of fantasy if that's your cup of tea

 

Yeah, true.

 

Old Kung Fu master 1: Your praying mantis, is no match, for my drunken crane kung fu!

Old Kung Fu master 2: Really?
We shall see about that!



Round one,.............Fight!!